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The Primitives: Yet Another Rare Score for Part Time Punks 12th Anniversary
Rob Shepyer
June 12, 2017
At this point, the musical muscle memory I’ve developed as a contributor for Janky Smooth has revealed at LEAST one thing- I know how to spot a good show from a mile away. So, when Part Time Punks announced that The Primitives were playing Los Angeles for the first time
Punk Rock Bowling 2017: You Can’t Be What You Were…
Danny Baraz
June 9, 2017
Looking out into the sea of people in the expanses that sprawl out from the upgraded festival stage at Punk Rock Bowling’s virgin location in the booming district of Downtown Las Vegas was a seismic life experience. Not just because of how fucking rad Punk Rock Bowling was this year
Punk Rock Bowling 2017 Kicks Off w/ The Sonics, Throw Rag & Moore
Vanessa Burgundy
June 7, 2017
There was a handful of early-bird punks and a few scattered tourists as we approached a surprisingly sleepy version of downtown Fremont Street but with a line-up including Dr. Madd Vibe (feat. Angelo Moore from Fishbone), Throw Rag, the Mutants, Chicken Hawk All Stars, and OG (that’s original garage) rockers
The Transcendental Jams of Kikagaku Moyo at Austin’s Scottish Rite Theater
Lindsay Krause
June 5, 2017
A Masonic double-headed eagle emblem keeps a watchful eye on top of the glowing sign for Austin’s Historic Scottish Rite Theatre. Over the weekend, this former German opera house transformed into an enchanting lair to host rising experimental Japanese group Kikagaku Moyo. It’s not often that one gets to experience
Television Performing “Venus” at Bunkhouse Saloon for PRB Club Show
Janky Smooth Central Command
June 1, 2017
It’s hard to believe that yet another Punk Rock Bowling is in the books but the week long hangover proves it. The Stern brothers book yet another legendary gig with Television headlining the Bunkhouse Saloon along with The Weirdos, Alice Bag and The Avengers. Tom Verlaine and company were
Pallbearer & Gatecreeper Stop at Echoplex Reminds Us- Guitar Solos Matter
Rob Shepyer
May 27, 2017
Pallbearer’s tour brought them to the Echoplex on May 18th with support from Arizona death metal savages Gatecreeper and local avante-garde-post-experimental-jazz-metal-poets Grand Lord High Master. Doom metal is back in style because sorrow and surrender and being in touch with your feelings are back in style. Maybe “being in touch
Redd Kross & The Side Eyes: A Great Case For Nepotism at The Echo
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 24, 2017
It was a packed house last Tuesday night at The Echo, as Redd Kross played the last show of a month long tour in their home base of Los Angeles, CA. They have been traveling the nation on their “Beneath the Valley of the Teen Babes of Monsanto” tour. related
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Inter-Review At The Fonda Theater
Dave Unbuckled
May 23, 2017
Me First and The Gimme Gimmes made their welcome return to Los Angeles at the Fonda Theater on May 13th to a sold out crowd that was comprised of every demographic one could think of. After all, the band has been celebrating their 20th anniversary for the past two years,
Isaac Rother & The Phantoms Are Back With 5 Hits From Hell…
DM Collins
May 23, 2017
Isaac Rother & the Phantoms and their soul-laden stew of R&B horror rock and off-the-charts live show bring a seminal but sometimes forgotten era of rock from the 50s and early 60s back to life. But Isaac and his Phantoms also evoke a time just a few decades
Com Truise & Clark At Forefront of Breaking Stigma of Electronic Music
Aria Silva-Espinosa
May 22, 2017
Electronic music often carries a heavy stigma for being repetitive or unoriginal. Unfortunately, many artists get lumped into the broad category of ‘EDM’ thus rendering their art unpalatable or unapproachable for a significant portion of music enthusiasts. What people fail to recognize is that, just as electric guitar is central
